Kyiv Chamber Orchestra, Natalia Ponomarchuk - Yevhen Stankovych: Complete Chamber Symphonies, Vol. 1 (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Chamber Symphony No. 7 Path and Steps: I. Paths and Steps
02. Chamber Symphony No. 7 Path and Steps: II. Several Remarks
03. Chamber Symphony No. 7 Path and Steps: III. Once Upon a Time Visiting Great Vivaldi
04. Chamber Symphony No. 3: Chamber Symphony No. 3
05. Chamber Symphony No. 15: I. Lento ad lib
06. Chamber Symphony No. 15: II. Allegro

Between 1972 and 2018 the Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych – born in 1942 and now the senior figure in Ukrainian music – produced a series of seventeen Chamber Symphonies, many of them doubling as concertos. This substantial body of music has remained largely unheard until now, even inside Ukraine, and should prove a major discovery for audiences everywhere. These works cover a kaleidoscopic range of moods – lyrical, rhythmically propulsive, bashfully hesitant, buoyantly assertive, elegiac, optimistic – expressed in a direct language with its distant roots in the mild modernism of Berg, Britten, Janáček, Shostakovich and like composers. Stankovych’s achievement is unparalleled in the history of music not simply because of the sheer number of his Chamber Symphonies – they also contain some of the finest music of the past half-century.

Natalia Kozhushko-Maksymiv, flute
Eva Rabchevska, violin
Luba Tunnicliffe, viola
Dmytro Tavanets, keyboards
Kyiv Chamber Orchestra
Natalia Ponomarchuk, conductor